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Nvidia’s Chris Daniel updated the company’s blog with news that the Shield Android TV set-top-box can now be purchased on Google Play in North America. The device is one of three Shield gadgets that Nvidia has released over the years, starting with the Shield handheld (2013) followed by the Shield tablet (2014) and the Shield…
Top Deal: Future generations will look back and giggle at the multi-monitor setups of yesteryear. They’ll listen as old folks tell about bezels and messes of cables that came with running two or three monitors at a time, but they’ll never know the struggle. That’s because they’ll be rocking a monitor akin to today’s top…
One TUF cookie If Mad Max were to build a system around Skylake, we have no doubt he’d opt for the new Asus TUF Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1. True to its name, this “TUF” board is littered with features designed for durability, such as port-protecting Dust Defenders, military-grade components, ESD guards, and so forth. Let’s…
Valid explanation or bogus excuse? You would think that adding support in Chrome for notifications to appear in the Action Center for Windows 10 would be an easy “Yes” for Google, but you’d also be wrong. As it turns out, Google has no intention of using the Action Center, at least not anytime soon. The…
Drats! Swap out your mechanical keyboard for a crappy membrane plank before reading any further. It’s just a precaution, should you decide to Hulk-smash your keyboard in frustration at what we’re about to tell you. Remember the Vive VR system being developed by Valve and HTC we told you about earlier this year? It’s the…
This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. It’s tempting to always get the biggest and fastest memory kit, but how much RAM do you actually need? Component lifespans are usually pretty easy to track. Processors get higher clock speeds, more cores,…
Top Deal: Friends don’t let friends drive mechanical HDDs for their primary storage. Do you know someone who’s suffering in the slow lane because of a hard drive? Even worse, do they complain of occasion grinding noises? Do you friend a solid by helping to backup his or data STAT, then share today’s top deal…
Walk softly and carry a keyboard stick LG plans to unveil at IFA 2015 in Berlin what it claims is the industry’s first solid rollable wireless portable keyboard. The keyboard, which bears the unfortunate name of “Rolly,” folds up along its four rows into a stick that’s supposed to easily fit in a pocket, purse,…
Abducting Skylake It was three years ago to the day that we posted our review of Dell’s Alienware X51 PC game console to the website, which we called “impressively powerful for its size.” That was true at the time, though in the fast moving world of technology, the system’s Core i5-2320 CPU paired with a…
AMD R9 Nano: Small but Powerful The initial launch of AMD’s Fiji architecture has been a bit rough: The R9 Fury X failed to claim the performance crown from GTX 980 Ti, though it puts up a good fight. Stepping down a notch is the R9 Fury, an air-cooled take on Fiji with eight of…